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What were the mains debate during Romantic Age ?

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Innocence VS Experience
Freedom VS Repression
Individual VS Social Responsibility

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Edmund Burke (Reflections on the Revolution in France ) 1790

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Condemned the Revolution for transforming historical evolution and tradition into a ‘blank page’

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Thomas Paine (Rights of Man) 1791

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It’s an answer to Burke’s novel. This book stated that a revolution is justified when a government doesn’t defend the natural rights of its people.

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William Godwin (An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice ) 1793

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He defended a fairer distribution of wealth to remove poverty

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Two Scottish Poets

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Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) 
Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
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Pre-Romantic poetry

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William Blake (1757 - 1827) 
In (Visions of The Daughters of Albion (1793), Blake criticises the subordination women a nd advocates free sexuality
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The first generation of Romantic poets : the cult of nature

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William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) 
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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The second generation of Romantic poets: the poet as rebel

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John Clare (1793 - 1864) 
George Gordon Byron (1788 - 1824) 
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
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The Gothic Novel

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Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823) 
Mary Shelley (1797 - 1851)
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)

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She gently satirises greed, hypocrisy, complacency, selfishness, and always ranks goodness and love above social status and money

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Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)

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His novels are historical, mostly set in the past of Scotland during periods of turmoil and war, and show how people are influenced by the political events of the time.